Reinsurance News
Insurance Capital Markets Research (ICMR), an independent analytics and research firm founded by former leaders of Lloyd’s internal research and performance team, has released new findings showing how relative benchmarking, enhanced by predictive...
Posted: Sep 01, 2025
Insurance Capital Markets Research (ICMR), an independent analytics and research firm founded by former leaders of Lloyd’s internal research and performance team, has released new findings showing how relative benchmarking, enhanced by predictive...
Posted: Sep 01, 2025
Northern Re, a reinsurance firm focused on long-tail casualty business, has announced the launch of its structured solutions product suite and enhanced whole account quota share capabilities. The products have been created to address complex ceden...
Posted: Sep 01, 2025
Starr Insurance, a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance, has announced the appointment of Hassan El Kaissi as Senior Executive Officer (SEO) & Regional President, Middle East. Based in Dubai, El Kaissi will oversee all lines...
Posted: Sep 01, 2025
Lin Mun, an executive with over 21 years of extensive experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry, has been appointed as Director, Client Management of Aon Reinsurance Malaysia. With a deep understanding of the market and client needs, Mu...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
Asian reinsurers are actively expanding to mature overseas markets to diversify their portfolios and improve cycle management, a move seen by credit rating agency AM Best as credit positive. According to a recent AM Best report, many reinsurers in...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the insurance industry, has announced the launch of the Next-Generation Digital Standards (NGDS) Object Model, designed to streamline digital data exchange across the insurance industry. The NGDS Object...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers (RSUM), the underwriting management division of Ryan Specialty, has announced the appointment of Alan Ferguson as Chief Executive Officer of US Assure, effective September 1, 2025. Ferguson, who will continue t...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
kWh Analytics, a climate insurer and risk manager for renewable energy projects, through its licensed insurance entity, Solar Energy Insurance Services, Inc., has expanded its portfolio with a new Excess Natural Catastrophe coverage to protect the...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
Fitch Ratings’ review of GAAP financial results for 41 North American (NA) re/insurers showed strong operating returns, strong underwriting results, and higher investment income in the first half of 2025, despite elevated catastrophe activity. Fit...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation (China Re) released its unaudited results for the first half of 2025, reporting a net profit of RMB 6,599 million, up 11.4% from RMB 5,922 million in the same period a year earlier. The Group achieved gross wr...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
AXA COLPATRIA, AXA Climate, Fondo Acción, and WTW Alternative Risk Transfer, have jointly designed a parametric insurance programme to protect coral reefs in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. In this effort,...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
Allianz Trade, a provider of trade credit insurance and part of the Allianz Group, has appointed company veteran, Tetsushi Kitano as Country Manager for Thailand, effective September 1st, 2025. The appointment aligns with Allianz Trade’s str...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
Ledgebrook Inc., a technology-focused provider in the Excess and Surplus Lines insurance sector, has launched Ledgebrook Re, a boutique reinsurance brokerage and advisory firm dedicated to supporting the next generation of insurance innovators. Le...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, a subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, has announced the launch of its new parametric insurance product, “Weather Insurance Index”, a new offering designed to help insurers manage financial losse...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Ascot Group Limited, a Bermuda-based specialty re/insurance company, raising its long-term issuer credit rating to BBB+ from BBB. At the same time, S&P assigned an A long-term financial strength rating to As...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
The European “Big Four” reinsurers—Swiss Re, Munich Re, Hannover Re and SCOR—still have appetite for property catastrophe, despite market conditions beginning to show signs of softening, according to a recent AM Best report. The ratings agency not...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
HDI Global, a commercial and specialty lines insurer, has announced the appointment of Nikita Tikhonov as its new Head of Marine Global Risk, effective 1st September, 2025. Based at HDI Global’s Hannover, Germany headquarters, Tikhonov will...
Posted: Aug 29, 2025
Urs Baertschi, CEO of Property & Casualty Reinsurance at Swiss Re, recently shared his perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the insurance industry in 2025. Reflecting on his personal aversion to roller coasters, Baertschi com...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Guy Carpenter, a Marsh McLennan business, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Goodman as Chief Client & Growth Officer, a newly created global role. Based in New York, Goodman will be reporting to Dean Klisura, President & CEO of Guy C...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Although reinsurers continue to expand their natural catastrophe business, the pace of growth has slowed from last year and is expected to remain subdued in 2026 as pricing conditions soften, according to a recent report by S&P Global Ratings....
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Aon’s latest report has revealed that alternative capital surged to a record $121 billion by June 30, 2025, as cedents increasingly turn to solutions beyond the traditional reinsurance market. H1 2025 saw the structuring of 56 catastrophe bonds wi...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
According to the 2025 US Cyber Insurance Monitor (UCIM) from the advisory firm QualRisk Cyber Insurance Center (QCC), the US cyber insurance market experienced its first reduction in reported premiums since the NAIC began collecting data in 2018....
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a provider of geospatial intelligence, and Eagleview, a developer of advanced geospatial technology, have announced a collaboration to strengthen the insurance industry’s capabilities in responding to large-sc...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025
Accelerant Holdings has reported a net income of $13.1 million for the second quarter of 2025, marking a 242.4% increase from a net loss of $9.2 million in the same period a year earlier. Total revenues for the quarter reached $219.1 million, up f...
Posted: Aug 28, 2025